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- Mahatma Gandhi A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
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-- Thornton Wilder When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
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The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
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de Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Scariff
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
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-- James Thurber Scariff Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
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Never practice two vices at once.
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